Graduate level lesson plan about child sexual abuse

Please feel free to include these 2 week lessons into semester long courses for JoAnn Stevelos's novel Howard Be Thy Name. The 2 week lessons are appropriate for graduate level courses in the the following disciplines: public health, social work, psychology, sociology, and theology.

Curriculum (Mini Courses)

Howard Be Thy Name

The supplemental curriculums, Child Sexual Abuse and Breaking the Silence Within And Outside the Family and Clergy Child Sexual Abuse provide instructors a two week long mini course consisting of six hours (based on two three hour classes) of material and approximately four hours of independent work for students. The curriculum help instructors explore their own ideas and their student’s ideas about child sexual abuse and and non-offending family member trauma. These mini-courses are guided by the 2017 World Health Organization’s Clinical Guidelines: Responding to Children and Adolescents Who Have Been Sexually Abused.

Child Sexual Abuse and Breaking the Silence Within And Outside the Family

In this mini-course, instructors will explore:

Family Dynamics that create and sustain a conspiracy of silence that suppresses or silences child victims from disclosing sexual abuse.

Stages of Healing for Victims and Non-Offending Family Members

Best Practices for Trauma-Informed Care at Time of Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse

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